KJV King James Version
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Job 15:14
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
WEB World English Bible
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
ASV American Standard Version
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Surrounding context — Job 15
11 [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?
14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;
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Ecclesiastes 7:20For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.Proverbs 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?Romans 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.Job 25:4-6How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?Psalm 14:3They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.1 John 1:8-10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;Job 9:2I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Psalm 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.Ecclesiastes 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.2 Chronicles 6:36If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before [their] enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;Galatians 3:22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.Ephesians 2:2-3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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